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From: (Don Aitken)
Subject: Re: Query: English Registers - "private" baptisms
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 03:44:00 GMT
References: <a5jc3e$r4o$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, <a5q5ui$gfe$1@thorium.cix.co.uk>, <na.d0ecc74b10.a80420pmoynagh@argonet.co.uk>


On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 13:36:43 GMT, Paul Moynagh
<> wrote:

>In article <a5q5ui$gfe$1@thorium.cix.co.uk>,
>wrote:
>> one of my
>> forebears, a sawyer in Liverpool, lived very close to the waterfront 1840
>> - 1850. . . . . .
>> I would also very much like to know what proportion of these
>> ships were (or had been) slavers.
>
>None when he lived there, though a few may have been old slavers. The 1833
>Antislavery Act abolishing all slavery throughout the British Empire took
>effect on 1 August 1838.
>
But the slave *trade* had been illegal since 1807 (give or take a
year). Slavers were legally pirates, and treated as such, by the
1830s.

--
Don Aitken

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